| A | B |
| accelerate | to cause faster movement; to go faster |
| celerity | swiftness; quickness; speed |
| concur | to agree; to cooperate |
| discourse | coversation; a formal discussion of a subject in speech or writing |
| incur | to meet with; to run into; to bring upon oneself |
| precursor | forerunner; comes before |
| succor | help in time of distress; to render help to |
| conglomeration | collection of unrelated things |
| abject | humiliating & miserable |
| conjecture | an opinion formed from inconclusive evidence; a guess |
| interjection | word expressing emotion; (remember Grammar Rocks?) |
| ejaculate | to say something suddenly & briefly; to exclaim; to eject sharply |
| assail | to attack violently; to assault; to ridicule or critcize |
| desultory | jumping from one thing to another; rambling; random |
| exhult | to rejoice greatly; to be triumphant |
| resilient | capable of returning to the original shape after being bent or stretched |
| salient | conspicuous; striking |
| convalesce | to recover from health after illness |
| avail | to use one's own advantage |
| prevalent | widely occurring or in general use |
| valor | heroic courage; bravery |
| evolve | to develop gradually |
| voluble | speaking in a steady, easy flow of words; talkative |
| ethnocentrism | belief in the superiority of one's own ethnic group |
| zi-da-bao | praise posters |